Emma Goldman Society For Queer Liberation

• Opening words – The Impossible Will Take A Little While

Events

• National Coming Out Day – Monday October 12

• Washington DC—8 people are going from Stanford
• Solidarity event for Saturday October 10th– Imani is the point person; email her if you want to help out ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
• Community organizing training—Camp Wellstone (November 7^th  (12-6) and 8^th (12-4))
  • Email Laura if you want to help out or attend
  • You can attend only Saturday or both days (Sunday is more advanced training)
• Maine Phonebanking –Ben is point person ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
  • Thursday October 6 at 2:30—going to San Jose to get trained in phone banking (this will last about 2.5 hours)
  • You can help out even if you can’t attend training – just let Ben know how much time you can commit
• Trans awareness week
  • November 20^th is national Transgender Remembrance Day–solemn event
  • We can do an awareness week separately or do something for the official national event
  • Candlelight vigil on Transgender Remembrance Day
• Queer Homeless Youth
  • People who are going to DC will be learning a lot about queer homeless youth
  • When they get back, we will discuss how we can help
• Disorientation Guide
  • Series of stories written by Stanford students
  • Jenna ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )—wants us to write stories about queer activism on Stanford campus
  • 300-500 words written within the next week (by around October 13^th)
  • Jenna will email out a PDF of the old guide
• October 30^th—JSA is inviting Scott Freed to speak
  • He will be speaking about his life coming out and his experience with HIV
  • JSA is looking for co-sponsorship – Total cost is $1000
  • Our presence there would be very valuable because it is a discussion type event
  • Friday 8:30 Hillel Center
  • Emma Goldman and JQ will apply for money together from ASSU
• SPEAK
  • Jihad for Love – about being queer and Muslim
  • Also looking for co-sponsor – but no money involved, we just need to attend
  • Will be screened on a Thursday in the next few weeks
• Amanda Gelender is doing a play about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and student activism
  • It is relevant because it involves direct action and marginalized people
  • We can have a table outside and get a bio during the play

• Closing words—also from The Impossible Will Take Awhile